[PRCo] Re: i don't know who E.T. Brashear was...

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, robert netzlof wrote:

>
> --- On Mon, 10/20/08, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> ...The Chartiers
>> Southern was the unbuilt
>> railroad that was graded from near my place to
>> Marianna...not exactly in
>> West Penn Railways territory.
>
> Well, yeah, but...
>
> The grade which runs from Van Emmens to Marianna was constructed under 
> the charter of the Chartiers Southern, and it apparently never went into 
> common carrier service. However, I've run into other pieces of Chartiers 
> Southern which were built and operated, either by the PRR or by the 
> Monongahela Ry. Those pieces were down in the Brownsville area, well 
> into West Penn territory. (Can't lay my hands on the book right now.)

That does sound familiar.

> It appears the Chartiers Southern had a rather vague charter which 
> allowed it to "do stuff" all over the southeastern corner of the 
> commonwealth.

And yet they did it in the southwestern corner instead?